New York 25-27th May Joe Alessi plays the Chic Corea Trombone concerto

[Vegasbound]

Full details here

https://www.lastrowmusic.com/event/core ... lharmonic/

[Doug Elliott]

Oooo, I'd love to hear that. I may have to plan a trip.

[Posaunus]

If I were only not almost 3,000 miles away ...

[Doug Elliott]

I got my tickets for Thursday night.

[harrisonreed]

Be curious to hear that you think of it. I heard it last year at Suntory Hall, with Joe playing the solo.

[BigBadandBass]

I got mine for Saturday, excited to hear it

[RustBeltBass]

Be curious to hear that you think of it. I heard it last year at Suntory Hall, with Joe playing the solo.

Best hall I ever performed in, beyond incredible!!

[Doug Elliott]

Joe has seriously projecting sound, pretty much every note was crystal clear from my seat on the 2nd tier. He and the orchestra sounded awesome!
It's a very interesting piece with a lot of variety, but nothing too outlandish technically. According to the program notes some sections are improvised, but I suspect he had worked out what he was going to play - it was all very clean and nothing sounded obviously improvised.
One part of it, I think the 3rd movement called Hysteria (about the pandemic), had some wild angular lines and lots of interplay between the solo and sections of the orchestra. It was a very moderate tempo and I sort of wished it was faster to create more "Hysteria."
The last movement, Joe's Tango, is more rhythmically complex and gets into some higher and faster playing with some high F#'s and I think I heard one G. It ends on a high F#!
Overall an excellent addition to the repertoire.

[harrisonreed]

I was blown away by Joe's playing when I heard it, but the actual composition wasn't my cup of tea. It had some really cool moments but just didn't feel as coherent as a piece as, say, the Bourgeois concerto.

Joe sounds like $4 million dollars (inflation adjusted) on his new Shires and Laskey combo.